bill "window" gates & warren buffet teach indians some charity

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Ref: 2011-05 of March 29, 2011

Bill "Window" Gates & Warren Buffet teach Indians Some Charity!

It is difficult to make money honestly most of the times. We are living in the era of easymoney, casino money, lotto money, cheapest money, QE2 money and bail out money.However, such easy money can be made only by "House" or big guys sitting in thegolden towers decorating Manhattan skyline in New York or within the boundary of White House, Fed and Treasury in Washington.

When the money loses the cost, it becomes amean to manipulate the market, people andentire environment. Cheap money istherefore most pollutive element on thisplanet, dangerous than even CO2 emissions.Corruptions galore everywhere - there is norule of law. If someone is caught in "InsiderTrading" he is condoned by allowing him topay fines of few or few hundred milliondollars when the magnitude of fraud runsinto billions or even trillions of dollars. Thedays of millions and billions are gone - wehave made progress, tremendous progress,we can talk of about only trillions. Look around. The bailout costs are in trillions,


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Madoff and Stanford also defraud in billions. Europe and Japan also talk only of trillions.The total derivative outstanding today is in excess of $ 700 trillion - 100,000 times of world's entire population of just over $ 6 billion.

Noblest Soul amid the hooligans

Even in the midst of such hooliganism, we still have civil and law abiding individualsand companies. It is a rule of self balancing nature. In the midst of Madoff, Stanford andRajratnam, we still have fantastic corporations like IBM, Merck, Exxon, Chevron, Apple,Intel, HP, P&G etc. While almost everyone on the Wall Street want to become an instant millionaire or billionaire, believing in motto that by hook and crook the money must bemade, we still have some of the noblest soul on the planet like Bill "Window" Gates andWarren Buffet who want to give away billions of dollars, almost entire fortune of theirlife time, to charity.


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Gates and Buffet - Opposite Characters unified in Noble Cause Gate and Buffet are diametrically opposite characters. Bill Gates was a hardnosedtechno-businessman who would not want to give away anything and would doanything to scuttle the competition, either by destroying them or taking them over. It

could never be visualized that such man would turn a philanthropic one day. Suchtransformation could happen only due to one single force - a woman - the gift of God tothe mankind. Was it due to his wife Melinda? Well, I do not know much about her. But it could be. A woman would not want to give away even a thousand dollar, whereas weare talking about billions here. It should be with her consent or motivation.

Warren Buffet is soft spoken silvery haired legendaryinvestor known more to me for his famous waving

hand than investments. He has made billions the waya bird builds its nest. He still loves his old home. He isnon assuming but while announcing his intention todonate his entire fortune to charity, he forgot oneproverbial wisdom - " Charity begins at home ". Heignored his children and grand children, of courseafter reserving their future, but still not large enoughto make them happy. In short, he ignored his basicparental duty.

That aside, the most difficult part of their charitable donation is the conversion of intention into reality. When one publicly announces donation of billions of dollars incharity, crooks and scoundrels spring up like mushroom.

Easy to earn, difficult to give away Both of them realize that it is fairly easy to make money but very difficult to distributeamongst the cause. They also do not seem to know how to help the fellow human beingor people in distress. They look beyond the borders of America when the Americanthemselves have turned from rich to middle class to poor people. They go to Africa todistribute medicines to help them cure from HIV or AIDS but what they are doing is toaddress the result rather than cause.


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Clandestine Charity The charity should be done in clandestine manner, The left hand should not know what the right hand is doing. Further, the charity must be given only to deserving characters.It should be done in such a way that the recipient of charity builds up strong characteron his own and become independent to such extent that he too becomes the torch

bearer like his unknown donor.

Purpose Oriented Charity - that Gates and Buffet do not know Instead of giving away money free of cost through corrupt politicians or middleman,the persons like Gates and Buffet should have thought of building water dams or powerstations in the poor country by engaging the US contractors or companies. This willcreate jobs in America and also provide purpose oriented help to deserving people bycutting off the corrupt politicians. Those countries would have become independent and self sufficient in producing enough food in their heartland. It is one thing toconceive the noble ideas, but very difficult to carry them out to desired goal, intentionsor destinations.

Misconceived India Visit While visiting India recently, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates said that they were lookingfor Indian billionaire to adopt their stance and become extra ordinary donors like theyare. He was addressing wrong people or segment of the people. Gone are the days of Tatas and Birlas who could afford to be philanthropic in their own inimitable style.

New breed of MBAs now manning the corporate scene in India, with possible exceptionof Infosys, are money go getters. They are new to money. They have never seen thiskind of money in their life time or during the days of their childhood. Most of them arenot "Garbh Shrimant" or "Borne Billionaire" who have seen money through generations.Every other day, one is coming across in India the scam, corruption at high places andextra ordinary level of filthy life now pervading in the higher echelons of business andpolitics.

Real India lives in Villages not in Cities, so said Gandhi What Gates and Buffet missed was the millions of people living simple middle class lifestyle and poor people in the villages. Both Gates and Buffet were travelling fromBangalore to Mumbai to New Delhi in privately owned planes. They forgot the basictenet that father of Indian Nation - Mahatma Gandhi taught to another freedom fighterGopal Krishna Gokhale that "If you want to know India, go back to villages wherethe real India lives and thrives ". Richard Attenborough, the famous film maker of Gandhi fame also illustrated this dialogue in his masterpiece movie.


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Coming to masses, both Gates and Buffet missed was the hundreds of thousands of Indians routinely donate to charity by frequenting places like Balaji temple in Tirupati,Jalaram temple in Virpur where unknown and unmarked donations arrive in hordeswithout any name mentioned anywhere. Such donors never wanted their names on the

donation they give. Their right hand would never know what the left hand was doing.But again, such donations were going to waste. They were not helping recipients tobecome "independent" but become excessively dependent on charity. They would lineup every day, doing nothing but just line up, fill up their tummy and reappear againnext day with same routine.

Guest vs. God in India If Buffet had visited any village and taken a lunch or dinner with his host, he wouldhave realized that the host and his family would have remained "hungry" while feedinghim. It is the natural Indian tradition where the "guest" is equated with "God". Buffet may be charging $500,000 for anyone to have lunch or dinner with him, but the Indianfarmer would give away his everything including family pleasure to appease his guest.

A famous movie made by legendary Raj Kapoor - Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hain -where the following lines were sung with ethos and eloquence


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" Mehmaan Jo Hamara Hota Hain, woh Jaan se pyaara hota hain" (Whoever become ourguest, he is dearer than all, even dearer to our life)" Narajin nahin hamse hokar, thode mein gujaara hota hain, thode mein gujaara hot hai"( We never feel displeasure while serving him (guest) and we do not mind getting on

with our life even with reduced resources).

Mr. Buffet, this is India. You have to go to villages to find hundreds of thousands of donors, not in cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore or New Delhi. Gandhi's teachingseven today remain valid.

And while Mr. Buffet was sermonizing on "unsuitability of gold as investment" a farmerwould have said GET HIM OUT OF HERE"!

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